Show ff 11 tit til M alls cui 11 alion I 1 mite aise arai and progress gioi ess of conr I 1 I 1 cotil chmir Co mir hilry TO ARE ABE VVE HE INDEBTED FOR FOB ITS CREAT 1 niss NESS vilder Provi dencey the people of this coun conn try are indebted ed to the democratic party for exalted position aanon the haits eions of the earth slid and for tile peace liberty and protection in person anil ami property M aich they enjoy at home anil and abroad Consider considering ilig tile the gei graphical position population lation and resources sourceS ril of oe the confederacy at t tile the time ot of the ado tion or of the constitution and looking it by comparisons comparison v ith their present de e yelo elopement tile the mind ot of e eiery ery reader of past or contemporaneous history must be convinced lie that the pro gress a ami grouth nd of tile the convi ui hinted tea states has it in its extent since it became a nation surpassed that of any other tills this felicitous comparison establishes the unmistakable facts that tile the institutions of the government of this great republic werd handed linin ded in in wisdom and that they have been to and successfully carnei carne i out by tte the party and the men inen is nho ho have almost uninterruptedly had the control arid and management ot its affairs irom from the adoption ot of tile the constitution to the present day and what party and w hat men have exercised that control slid and direction Tilean siver cannot be controvert ed the iha democratic baity its measures and its men have placed the republic inthe in the plou dand and prosperous position it now nov occupies to what hat party and to leoin ate aie we ve indebted for the acquisition ot of louisiana florida texas new Bl mexico exico I 1 anil and california carl can any one be found having baving havi bavi I 1 the hardihood to deny to the den abe credit of these inva invaluable leable extensions of theanea of freedom what single step in ill advancement ot of the general beneral welthie ot the I 1 country cou has been ma made e hat has not til ed will anil and been executed by the enberg a d of that great party ever eer true to the fundamental principles of our to atchless constitution the democratic larty barty is emphatically the ahe party of progress pro giess ats ts co course arse is steadily upward anti onward it never recedes irom from a position cr ci point gained gaine d lit the maich of libel at jeaa aid at d tile the expansion ot of the iho rights of man as pro claI in the declaration of the who ho lias has po no all ad i lation ith our democratic institutions may talk glibly fal lily lit in laior favor of 0 the despotic over arient ol of Eti europe ropel and some superficial fi cial minda may be daled by the and glittering glit term surroundings v aith itil which emperors and iiii kings s are tu bul tile the mat great mass of if the american people are deeply imbued with keinigs of able attachment to our coul country itry its liberties libei ties and its lavig ia s it is to this laig laige body of our citizens we e address ourselves when asking their ai to a betro retro hect of the political lii story present e t it ak ill show them that with a slight interregnum the control ot of tile the fedei fedrial at go erni nent lias has teen been lit in lh ill hands ot of tile the democrat alc tlc party arid and to that abat party is it under obligation for the maturation tu ration of u all foreign a and nd do Iti estic policy which lich have resulted in ill tile the promotion and safety sate of the union and the peace and happiness of its citizens st r tv 0 o in no instance in has the opposition imi to thil the democratic Democrat le party succeeded in gaining g a second annl consecutive triumph mim fill in in a nation campaign and indeed the sanie same remark voul I 1 aptly apply to their successes lit in some come of 0 the states slates Pennsyl vinla for instance there the opposition ne never ver have been able to reta retain in power pew er over one gubernatorial term after they obtained it had and in inlall all cases the second year of their administration found i large democratic majority 1 ity in the le gisla tive branch t the so eminent agan abah sf them other instances es bolli bolh of state and municipal government govern mert might be cited to bhoj ho that i one ather all er than in administration of all affairs airs based n pound democratic principles i 1 an all staccee 1 tor any length of tune time lit in tins this country tile the people are too intelligent to be permanently perman deluded from froin their true faith and soon sound political doctrines by tile tha arts anti and avilea ilea of tricksters trick th tha stage of public life and thy are brave braie and when hill the occasion occasion 1 re jul resit to arise in their th and cast off the treasonable incubus aich in some localities the dyaik spirit spin of 11 kilow kno settled u upon the ui the grand ex 0 of tile the capability cp Ability of 0 man mail for berf be aoi to so far 0 dt least as tins tills country is 13 concerned concern cotic errit td d hat has been ee demonstrated under the prestige anti and gui gin daice of democratic a it has successfully passed all thet lialA ls to wh I 1 ell nationalities ale subject Forfi Forel gil ii wars vars and i intestine reshoe laie been raft inet tile former tern mated alid the latter llala or quelled no go now v darkens hie brial fluture of the political national ho except uie the schemes of the it a of i e arax ed against the or democracy arid ard aiho ho are endeavoring to co labine their 11 con foreen for ceato to accomplish its defeat in it lre presidential canvass arid and nhat it may be asked are the rounds upon hichi chich they coine before the people for th fir suf frig frages 1 thea hey present lit ill reality but two the ars desire the abolition of slavery lit in other oilier v nords to destroy the compromises of tile the constitution and thereby break bleak up tip and dissolve thu the union which x would be the inevitable result of the consummation of their fanatical policy tile the know desire the deprivation of ile he rights of 0 citizenship to foreigners chich is to them by our and by vs masdin in and ald soi set nd md policy as tre the apen ll 11 ence of tile past lias has pi oved these ho fictions heri en combined as le legislation isla in aiassi ao dial besne tile the election of oe the social and political ballis of the cisro over that of tile buhite hile nan aho vho ho flat been born lit in the lie old world and ana chooses to make his loae home in anti and link lis lia for kincs with those of 0 the lie people of them the united states gohei it there 07 aae e any ariy other measure than those bhoge we debaie have by the opp 8 tin 1 1 we e have been i unable liable to eave d scorer r t them b n either i t her in n the speeches of thir their th ir lead leaders rs br or I 1 in i jhb alie columns alumns of their wal ih s slit guch lit missiles to be passed up n by tile tiia enlightened judgment of the voters loters the friends or of the tt e constitution an and dUnion union need feel tie ro ip pre bension lit in the perpetuity of deno cratic principles in the coming coining contest |